2024-07-02
Jean Harlow in a romantic farce about a straight-shooting girl in search of a millionaire.
A jaded Broadway diva must overcome her deep cynicism and fear in order to obtain true love with the blinded soldier who truly adores her.
Busby Berkeley's production numbers highlight this backstage extravaganza about a millionaire-turned-songwriter who financially backs a Broadway production, much to the surprise of three unemployed chorus girls. Songs include "We're in the Money," "The Shadow Waltz" and "Remember My Forgotten Man" by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.
A movie stuntman and a glamorous model run off together, leaving the company they work for to use their very disappearance as an unexpected source of publicity.
A rebellious working-class youth sent to a reformatory finds clarity of purpose during long, purifying runs in training for an important race against a posh rival school.
A Polio survivor, shy about her limp and the walking stick she uses to cope with it, is courted for the first time by a doting suitor, only to discover that his advances are a ruse designed to gain her trust so he can rob her antiques store.
The rock band Herman's Hermits storm Los Angeles for a concert, but when NASA offers to name a rocket ship after them, it seems to cause an inordinate amount of conflict.
A naive country girl gets a roommate with life experience when she moves into a flat in Dublin. The women meet an older writer, who is charmed by the country girl's rural ways rather than the more worldly roommate.
The Beatles' first film, a delightful, Marx Brothers-like romp, depicts a "typical day" in the lives of the beloved foursome, with a fresh, freewheeling tone and many of the band's songs. Restored version.
In 18th-century England, an abandoned baby is taken in and raised by a squire, who kicks the boy out for frolicking with a local girl. The youth makes his way to London where he grows up to be a bawdy womanizer.
A rebellious and irresponsible young factory worker, trapped in the dead-end blue-collar world he was born into, juggles relationships between two women, one of whom is carrying his child but is married to another man.
Alfred Hitchcock's character study, set in a lifeboat carrying eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack and a German sailor from the U-boat that sank their London-bound steamer, reveals the effects of extreme conditions on different personalities. John Steinbeck was nominated for a Best Original Story Oscar.
When a boiler explosion on an aging ocean liner spells disaster, a man must race against time to save his wife and daughter from their wrecked room before the ship sinks.
Spencer Tracy won Best Actor as an earthy Portuguese fisherman who takes under wing a tycoon's spoiled young son who's fallen off a transatlantic luxury liner and been by a passing fishing boat. It's a coming-of-age adventure during which the lad learns lessons in respect, self-sufficiency and discipline. The Best Picture nominee is based on the Rudyard Kipling book.